Dense, rounded shrub to 1 m, without lignotuber. Stems hirsute, densely leaved and with many prophylls. Leaves: petiole to 5 mm long; lamina linear, pinnatifid, 15-35 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, acute, pungent, rusty-tomentose in pits below; margins revolute; lobes 25-75 each side, triangular, to 4 mm long, pungent. Inflorescences terminal, closely successive; involucral bracts linear, to 6 cm long, acuminate, rather soft; outer bracts viscid-hirsute; inner bracts hirsute on upper margin; flowers 40-55 per head. Perianth 55-56 mm long, golden yellow, hirsute above base, glabrous distally except coarse hairs on limb until anthesis; limb 14-15 mm long. Pistil straight or slightly incurved, 54-55 mm long, yellow, sparsely hirsute above ovary, glabrous distally; pollen presenter gradually narrowed, c. 10 mm long, obscurely ribbed. Follicles several, ±oblong with narrowed base, 15-16 mm long, sparsely hairy, viscid.
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